The Security Council today extended and expanded the arms embargo and related sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which have been in place since 2003, for another year.

The ongoing case of Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda will come before Rwanda's Supreme Court, Mr Nkunda's lawyer said Tuesday.

A senior United Nations peacekeeping official today voiced "extreme" concern over the fate of two abducted staff members of the joint UN-African Union mission in Darfur (UNAMID), warning that the security situation on the war-ravaged western flank of Sudan continues

Land reform in Côte d'Ivoire must take into account people displaced by conflict, says a report by the International Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).

Kenya has increased security surveillance along the border with Somalia to prevent the fighting in the lawless state from spilling over into the country.

Increased banditry, kidnappings of relief workers and attacks on humanitarian compounds in eastern Chad are threatening crucial aid for nearly 100,000 people, many of them refugees or internally displaced persons (IDP), the United Nations reported today.

Somali pirates have reportedly seized a Greek-owned oil tanker and its 28 crewmembers more than 1000 kilometers off the coast of Somalia.

United Nations peacekeepers planted nearly 600 trees in a botanical garden in Côte d'Ivoire over the weekend, a small but symbolic step in a project to combat climate change that has already surpassed its target of 7 billion trees -

President Mugabe yesterday met the visiting South African mediation team to the inter-party political talks amid revelations that more "outstanding issues" have arisen to the Global Political Agreement.

The president of the Transitional Federal Government Sharif Sheik Ahmed has Tuesday visited several military bases of the government troops in south of the Somali capital Mogadishu.

The cabinet of ministers of the Transitional Federal Government approved a Federal Constitution during a meeting in Mogadishu on Sunday.

Pascal Gwezere, the MDC transport manager facing trumped-up charges of stealing 'arms of war', is still in remand prison, despite the elapse of the seven-day appeal period by the State.

The amnesty issued to perpetrators of last year's post-election violence to surrender their weapons has been extended.

The statement by Sudan's U.N. Ambassador, Abdalmahmoud Abdalhaleem, in reaction to our new report demonstrates the dangerous self-constructed reality in which the National Congress Party (NCP) continues to live. We are concerned by the Ambassador's statements which demonstrate Khartoum's continued

The ease with which the President went to pray in public, the lack of any security alert, the release of an ex-Lieutenant who was convicted of concealment of treason, the false alarms of countless number of people being arrested only

The authorities on Thursday evening released ex-Lieutenant Momodou Alieu Bah of the Gambia Armed Forces from the Maximum Security Wing at Mile Two Central Prison.

The officials of Darawish troops of the transitional government have Tuesday said that the killing sentence of the military court against one of Darawish soldiers may decrease the other killings in Mogadishu.

Genocide-accused former Rwandan Deputy Governor, Dominique Ntawukulilyayo, will testify for his own defence on December 8, 2009.

A soldier has highlighted the incidence of torture within the UPDF in a case against a senior officer accused of maiming "at least 10 soldiers".

One of Botswana's first female soldiers, Second Lieutenant Atamelang Koboyankwe says she would not swap her army uniform for anything else.